#humility

Humility is attentive patience. ↗

— Simone Weil

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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces. ↗

— William Gurnall

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In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #edward-said #humility #london #palestine

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve. ↗

— Pat Summerall

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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations. ↗

— Ted Allen

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Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. ↗

— William Osler

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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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